will last."
"Why do you put up with it?"
Ingrid asked.
"I don't understand you."
Jacey shrugged.
"He's a very attractive man.
You said so yourself.
And he gives me a
great orgasm."
"His body is attractive," Ingrid agreed.
"But to be called, and fucked, and sent home?
That is degrading.
You
are letting him control you.
Is this what you really want?"
"He isn't controlling me," Jacey said lightly.
"It's just a fantasy thing.
We're playing games."
"Nicolas Schlemann does not play games," Ingrid said.
"Dump him.
Give him a taste of his own medicine.
There are plenty of
men out there.
If they're not good at sex, you can teach them."
"I like Nicolas," Jacey said.
"I don't want anyone else."
But it was only partly true, although Jacey didn't want to admit that
to Ingrid.
She enjoyed sex with Nicolas, and she intended to stay with
him until he dumped her, and gave her the chance to play the woman
scorned.
But when she had an idle moment, and was able to let her
thoughts wander, she found them centring more and more on Leonardo
Marquez.
Why?
she asked herself.
Ever since the nightmare with
Faisel, she had never been attracted to younger men, and Leonardo was
at least ten years her junior.
Furthermore, there had been something
innocent about him that made her sure he was a virgin and she had never
liked inexperienced men.
So why Leonardo Marquez?
After Ingrid had left the office, Jacey leant back in her chair and
recalled the time she had noticed Leonardo watching her.
He was sure
he wouldn't like me, she thought, but he found me interesting.
That
must have confused him.
And maybe excited him?
She remembered the way
his hair had fallen forward, a heavy, uneven fringe that almost reached
his eyebrows.
She remembered the delicate slant of those brows, and
the slightly petulant mouth.
Then she remembered Ana Collados
describing Juanita Marquez's Italian lover as tall and thin, and rather
shy, commenting that her niece was besotted with him for at least a
year.
If he looked like his son, Jacey thought, I can understand
exactly what she saw in him.
She tried to imagine Leonardo without his clothes.
Not completely
nude, but in an interestingly brief bathing slip.
He would lack
Nicolas's taut strength.
His body would be more angular, but his tan
would probably be darker, and, if he had any body-hair, that would be
dark too.
She imagined the ridges of his ribs would be visible.
His
stomach would be flat, but not yet hard with muscle.
His legs would be
long and lean, and his bottom small.
And his cock and balls?
She
smiled.
They protruded attractively from between his thighs in the bathing slip
she had mentally dressed him in and their weight strained the narrow
holding thongs.
She imagined cutting them, snapping them, letting all
that enticing flesh bulge free.
Leonardo would probably try to cover himself.
She would grasp his
wrists and force his hands apart.
He would have to stand there, naked,
while she inspected him.
Despite his embarrassment, being forced into
that position would excite him.
His cock would swell and rise, and he
would blush and apologise.
And, she thought, smiling to herself, she
would thoroughly enjoy his humiliation.
That would teach him to judge
her arbitrarily.
Maybe she would even pretend to be angry with him.
She had a tantalising vision of him bending over, his neat bottom
exposed and ready, perhaps quivering a little in anticipation, and then
her own hand landing flat on it, in a satisfying flurry of slaps.
She realised, in surprise, that it was arousing her.
She had never
really been interested in sexy spanking games before, apart from the
one occasion with Anton.
But now the scene was in her mind she found
it difficult to dislodge.
Wriggling in her chair, she felt herself
growing moist and warm at the idea of disciplining Leonardo, and her
imagination began to invent other scenarios, mostly ones which involved
her ordering him to take his clothes off, or where she stripped him
herself.
The telephone suddenly interrupted her reverie.
"Dr.
Muldaire?
Jacey?"
For a moment she did not recognise the
voice.
"I hope I haven't caught you at an inconvenient time?"
"Raoul?"
She dismissed all thoughts of Leonardo from her mind.
"I'm just about to start my rounds.
Is this important?"
"To me," he said.
"I'm coming to La Primavera to visit a friend.
I have a personal
favour to ask of you."
As if sensing her rejection, he added quickly,
"Not for myself.
It's for Leonardo."
Later, when Raoul was sitting in front of her in her office, as
beautiful as ever in a dazzling, white open-necked shirt, and
immaculate sand-coloured chinos, Jacey could hardly believe what she
was hearing.
"But your brother doesn't even like me," she protested.
"He won't want to come and take English lessons from me."
"He will," Raoul said.
"Actually, he reads quite well already, but he hasn't had much chance
to practise his conversation.
All you would need to do is talk to
him."
He smiled.
"It might improve his manners as well."
"Your English is excellent," Jacey pointed out.
"Surely you could coach him?"
"I don't have time," Raoul said.
He leant forward.
"Jacey, my little brother will kill me if he discovers I've told you
this, but he actually asked me to approach you.
I think he's
fascinated by you."
Jacey masked her surprise.
"Oh, I see," she teased.
"You're acting as a matchmaker."
Raoul smiled.
"I'm sure Leonardo would be shocked at such a suggestion.
He's an
innocent.
I don't think he'd know what to do with a real woman."
But I know what I'd like to do with him, Jacey thought, after Raoul had
arranged a date for her first meeting with Leonardo.
Rather than
visiting the Marquez villa, Jacey preferred that Leonardo came to La
Primavera.
"It'll save time," she said.
"And stop any tongues wagging.
Leonardo could always say he was visiting friends."
"If you're worried about Nicci finding out what you're doing," Raoul
said, 'he will anyway."
Jacey shrugged.
"Nicolas won't be jealous of Leonardo."
He'll be sure that I couldn't possibly find a younger man like Leonardo
sexually attractive, she thought.
And up until now he would probably
have been right.
Although she found Leonardo physically appealing the thought of holding
him at arm's length was surprisingly seductive.
She liked the idea of
being obvious about what she had to offer, but withholding an
invitation for him to take advantage of it.
She knew very well that he
would not force himself on her; he would sit there and suffer.
She
could tease him, and enjoy watching him getting uncomfortable.
She had
never had sexual control of that kind before.
She began to look
forward to giving Leonardo his first lesson, and wondered whether he
was anticipating it with as much pleasure.
In fact, when he arrived at her room, he looked cross rather than
eager.
He was dressed in a light weight suit, and a shirt and tie, and
carrying a zipped leather folder.
He asked, in Spanish, if he could
take off his jacket, and when she nodded, he removed it slowly.
Once
again she admired his loose-limbed body.
His waist was so narrow, she
thought she could span it with her hands.
He looked like a healthy
young colt.
His trousers were smartly casual, and not tight enough for
her to see through fabric what she hoped to see in the flesh later.
Having taken rather too long to arrange his coat over the back of the
chair she had positioned for him, he sat down, hugged the zipped folder
close to his body like a shield, and fixed her with a reproving gaze.
"This was my brother's idea," he said in Spanish.
"Speak English," she said abruptly.
"And put that folder on the floor."
"I have brought paper," he said in English.
"I might like to take notes."
"You don't need to take notes," she said.
"Put it on the floor."
He hesitated, and then put the folder down.
Without it he suddenly
looked vulnerable.
"Now talk," she ordered.
She saw his lips tighten, and wondered again why she found his mouth so
sexy.
"What do you want me to talk about?"
It sounded like a challenge.
"Good heavens," she said crisply.
"Talk about anything you find interesting.
Films, books, food.